Deen Sharp, featured panelist in discussion with artist Julie Mehretu

Terreform Co-director and AKPIA@MIT Post-Doc Fellow Deen Sharp will be in discussion with artist Julie Mehretu as part of a panel organized by the Aga Khan Program at MIT.

April 8, 2019 - 6pm
MIT, Ray and Maria Stata Center
32 Vassar Street, Room 35-225

Panelists include:
Julie Mehretu, New York based artist
Miriam Cooke, Professor Emerita, Duke University
Asma Naeem, Curator, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Nasser Rabbat, Director, AKPIA@MIT
Deen Sharp, AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow

If you missed the event you can see the video here:

Panel Discussion with Artist Julie Mehretu Julie Mehretu, New York based artist Miriam Cooke, Professor Emerita, Duke University Asma Naeem, Curator,The Baltimore Museum of Art Nasser Rabbat, Director, AKPIA@MIT Deen Sharp, AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow April 8, 2019 * 6 pm * MIT Room 35-225 Also look for "Making Connections with Julie Mehretu" Article and photo by Donna Dodson for Artscope magazine here http://akpia.mit.edu/lectures-events-fall-2010-present

Early on in the process of putting together Beyond the Square, Deen had approached Julie Mehretu about including her work on Egypt–specifically,Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts) (2012) and Cairo (2013). Asking her felt like a long shot so we were both over the moon when she agreed to be involved. (Co-editor Claire Panetta in Jadaliyya).

Beyond The Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprising (Urban Research 05) Edited by Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta. With contributions from Khaled Adham; Susana Galán; Azam Khatam; C. Lanthier; Ed McAllister; Julie Mehretu; G. Ollamh; Duygu Parmaksizoglu; Aseel Sawalha; Helga Tawil-Souri. Cover art courtesy of Julie Mehretu, Marian Goodman Gallery. Cover design by Isaac Gertman / The Independent Group.

Michael Sorkin — "The Last Lecture," 4/1 at the University of Manitoba

Monday April 1, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery as a part of the MAA Sponsored Lecture Series, Michael Sorkin will be presenting “The Last Lecture.” The reception will begin at 5pm with the lecture following at 6pm. UR books will be for sale at the event.

Tom Angotti on NYC rezoning in Metropolis magazine

Zoned Out! author Tom Angotti writes about how New York City’s rezonings reinforce the chronic "color blindness” of city policy. “In New York City, Mayor de Blasio’s Rezonings Amplify Inequalities” (Metropolis)

Map: The 2018 Final Approved Zoning Plan for Inwood. NYC Department of City Planning (DCP)

There is much more continuity with past policies than most supporters of this administration will admit,” writes CUNY professor Tom Angotti in the introduction to Zoned Out!, the first major academic work to look at de Blasio’s housing policy in the context of New York City’s long history of development.

Rivlin-Nadler, Max. “De Blasio’s Bloombergian Land Use Plan” The Village Voice. October 18, 2016.

Also see Liete, Flavia. “Inwood NYC: Can City Hall and Community Activist’s Get to ‘Yes’ on Reshaping a Neighborhood’s Future?” The New School: Center for New York City Affairs.

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